Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes II

Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes II (473-19 January 520) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 518 to 520, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Timotheus I and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Epiphanios I.

Biography
Ioannes was made the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 518, and the Emperor Anastasius I of Byzantium forced him to accept the Council of Chalcedon. During his brief reign, he agreed to end the Acacian Schism, reuniting Orthodox Christianity with Catholicism.